The cognitive cell: bacterial behavior reconsidered

P Lyon - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Research on how bacteria adapt to changing environments underlies the contemporary
biological understanding of signal transduction (ST), and ST provides the foundation of the …

The origin of risk aversion

R Zhang, TJ Brennan, AW Lo - Proceedings of the National …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Risk aversion is one of the most basic assumptions of economic behavior, but few studies
have addressed the question of where risk preferences come from and why they differ from …

Comparative Genomic Analysis of N2-Fixing and Non-N2-Fixing Paenibacillus spp.: Organization, Evolution and Expression of the Nitrogen Fixation Genes

JB Xie, Z Du, L Bai, C Tian, Y Zhang, JY Xie… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We provide here a comparative genome analysis of 31 strains within the genus
Paenibacillus including 11 new genomic sequences of N2-fixing strains. The heterogeneity …

The physics of bacterial decision making

E Ben-Jacob, M Lu, D Schultz… - Frontiers in cellular and …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The choice that bacteria make between sporulation and competence when subjected to
stress provides a prototypical example of collective cell fate determination that is stochastic …

Mutually facilitated dispersal between the nonmotile fungus Aspergillus fumigatus and the swarming bacterium Paenibacillus vortex

CJ Ingham, O Kalisman… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
In the heterogeneous environment surrounding plant roots (the rhizosphere),
microorganisms both compete and cooperate. Here, we show that two very different …

First genomic insights into members of a candidate bacterial phylum responsible for wastewater bulking

Y Sekiguchi, A Ohashi, DH Parks, T Yamauchi… - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Filamentous cells belonging to the candidate bacterial phylum KSB3 were previously
identified as the causative agent of fatal filament overgrowth (bulking) in a high-rate …

Depletion force induced collective motion of microtubules driven by kinesin

D Inoue, B Mahmot, AMR Kabir, TI Farhana… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Collective motion is a fascinating example of coordinated behavior of self-propelled objects,
which is often associated with the formation of large scale patterns. Nowadays, the in vitro …

An evolutionary model of bounded rationality and intelligence

TJ Brennan, AW Lo - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Most economic theories are based on the premise that individuals maximize
their own self-interest and correctly incorporate the structure of their environment into all …

The Genetic Environment of the cfr Gene and the Presence of Other Mechanisms Account for the Very High Linezolid Resistance of Staphylococcus epidermidis …

J LaMarre, RE Mendes, T Szal, S Schwarz… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
The clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolate 426-3147L exhibits an unusually high
resistance to linezolid that exceeds 256 μg/ml. The presence of the cfr gene, encoding the …

Plant growth promotion by rhizosphere bacteria through direct effects

Y Helman, S Burdman, Y Okon - Beneficial microorganisms in …, 2011 - Springer
The area of the soil influenced by plant roots is named rhizosphere. Among the
microorganisms inhabiting the rhizosphere, several are plant growth promoting …